Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



AUNITED STATES GARDNER L. HOL'r AND JOSEPH o. MARSHALL, OE SPRINGFIELD, MAssA-` GHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO EDWD. H, BUCKLAND AND ALMANGORA.

BUGKLAND, OF SAME PLAGE.

l iMPRovEMN-r lNBREEcH-LOADING Fmr-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,157, dated April 22,1873; application filed February 2e, 1873.

Toall whom it may concern: Be it `known that we, GARDNER L. HOLr and JOSEPH C. MARSHALL, both of Springiield, in the county ot Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and use' ism of a breech-loading pistol designed to be used for toy purposes; and it consists of devices as hereinafter described, whereby a separate sear and trigger'are dispensed with in the ordinary manipulation Otthe arm in trin g. That others skilled in the art may be able to make and use Ourinvent-ion we'will describe its construction and operation.

In the drawing, A represents the frame, which may be cast in the same piece with ythe barrel, and wherein the hammer is pivoted at' J at the rear Ofandin aline with the lower part ofthe bore ofthebarrel, as shown in Fig. 1. The trigger E is made thin, and upon the lower part of the hammer, both in one piece, and when in place in the arm, operates'in and protrudes through the 4Shield or guard D. The main spring G has a bearing at its lower end in a notch in the frame at H, and at its upper end in the notch I in the hammer and nearly in the rear of the hammer-pin-J, when the nose ofthe hammer is down at the rear of the barrel; but when the hammer is thrown back the notch I,.with the upper end of the spring G, is

carried around beneath the hammer-pin. J to a position justforward of the dotted line w vdrawn from the notch H, in which'the lower endof the sprin g has its bearing tothe llammer-pin J and when in this positionand the hammer is cocked it is scheld by the relative position of the two ends of the spring and the upon its pivot until the notch I moves to av point just back of the dotted line a when the force of the spring is exerted to throw the hammer L forward. The hammer, may be set to any nicetyof action upon its pivot by a greater or less degree of strength and elasticity of the spring G."

This'arm is intended to be used for toy pun poses, and to use a cartridge' therein without a ball; and it may be made of woodor any other suitable material, as eheapness 1s the principal object aimed at -in the manufacture of this description of lire-arm. Y l

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure Letters Patent, is

1. The hammer L and trigger E, made inl Y piece, substantially as deone and the same scribed.

2. The combination ofthe hammer L pro-v vided with the notch I, the hammer-pivot J, and the spring G, whereby the hammer is held in a lcocked position and is also forced forward to explodethe cartridge, substantially ais set PATENT OEEIOE. 

